To the editor: Contributing author Josh Hammer’s recommendation to Democrats on attracting extra younger male voters will be summarized laughably as: Change into MAGA (“My unsolicited advice for Democrats learning to talk to men,” June 6).
However I might enterprise that there’s little political house left for extra populist appeals to disaffected male voters who’re terrified of fixing demographics and industrial paradigms, and who really feel entitled to dominion over others as a de facto perk of their gender or faith. MAGA owns this territory wholesale.
A greater technique for Democrats can be to make plain to this voter group that President Trump’s populism is a sham, and that he has no intention of sharing the spoils of his presidency with them regardless of his superficial acknowledgment of their anxieties. Pound incessantly at Trump’s unapologetic affiliation with the billionaire class and his efforts to counterpoint them and himself at voters’ expense. Show how Trump’s authoritarian oligarchy is already properly on the best way to additional depriving them of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and changing it with little greater than the petty succor of “proudly owning the libs.”
That is much better for the way forward for the US than creating extra MAGA males.
Greg Seyranian, Redondo Seaside
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To the editor: I can actually relate to the financial considerations of younger males in the present day. I actually lived paycheck to paycheck till my mid-40s. However as an 82-year-old, I’ve skilled a number of generations and had the good thing about expertise shared with me by my father and grandfather.
Each technology has its challenges, some common and a few distinctive. And in every technology, there are some who both can not or is not going to stand as much as these challenges. Younger males on this class are inclined to gravitate to spiritual, political or ideological authoritarian figures searching for affirmation of their very own value. So, it’s no marvel that some younger males on this state of affairs are interested in Trump and the MAGA tradition.
Jim Sims, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Hammer recommends masculinizing the Democratic Get together by rejecting local weather mitigation, which he claims would improve the price of power “in favor of Mom Earth.” Even with the upfront prices of retrofitting for a renewable energy-based financial system, renewables are less expensive than fossil fuels over the long run. The clue was at all times within the time period “renewable.” Moreover, when contemplating the environmental prices of burning fossil fuels, together with excessive warmth, droughts, crop failures, meals shortages, floods and mass migrations, renewable power proves to be significantly more cost effective.
The value of exacerbating the local weather disaster can be borne primarily by these for whom Hammer professes concern: The “over half of People [who] now dwell paycheck to paycheck.” It might sound too female for Mr. Hammer to care about Mom Earth. Nonetheless, an actual man faces the reality that elevated international temperatures will lead to not solely the lack of the Earth as we all know it but in addition the lack of human habitat and human life.
Richard Lyon, La Crescenta, Calif.
